Baggage
by Alan Cumming
Canongate
In his first memoir Not My Father’s Son, Alan Cumming wrote about having to deal with his sadistic father’s physical and emotional...
Aurora’s End
by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff are the award-winning authors of the Illuminae Files, which have sold more than...
All About Ella
by Meredith Appleyard
HQ Fiction
Cutlers Bay, a small seaside town in the Yorke Peninsula, becomes the accidental meeting place for three homeless people....
Troop Train
by Elizabeth Hutchins
Wakefield Press
It was February 1942 when the Japanese military overran Singapore and 14 year-old Rosemary Lister writes in her diary that...
More Than Halfway To Somewhere:
Collected Gems of a World Traveller
John Burbidge
Wordswallah (Self-published)
Following on from his critically acclaimed works like Dare Me! The Life and...
You Had It Coming
by B.M. Carroll
Viper
Warning: This review contains mentions of sexual assault.
Paramedic Megan Lowe has half an hour before the end of her...
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
by Richard Bradford
Bloomsbury Publishing
Born in Texas in 1921 at a time when sexuality was, in...
The Breaking
by Irma Gold
Midnight Sun Publishing
Hannah Bird was sitting in the hostel lobby, “a shabby affair, ripe with the smell of mould”, fumbling with...
This week we take a listen to new tracks from Isak Danielson, MNEK, Lola Leon, Mustbejohn, Ethan, Mad Tsai, Henry Lau, Die Gryn, Chaka Khan, Janet Jackson, Dyllón Burnside and more.